Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Butterflies

My sister likes butterflies, and even though we are past the season to see them here, I found myself making a butterfly card this week.

My friend, Susanne, found a technique posted by Therese on her website Lost In Paper this month using solid dies with embossing folders to create a frame for a matching stamp. To our dismay, the Cardologists do not have many solid dies. I have one solid die, but no stamp to match so I tried the technique with a set of dies from Impression Obsession that I fortuitously received in the mail this week.

The effect of the frame is lost unless you peak under the butterfly in the closeup, so it would work better with a matching stamp, and as we found out from our experimenting, if the die is sized to leave a border around the stamp.

The butterfly was cut from a left over scrap of ink applied direct to glossy paper. The word stamp is from a Stamp Camp set; the embossing folder is from Provo Craft/Cuttlebug.

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My name is Dora and I am one of the seven Cardologists - seven friends that rubber stamp together. I was introduced to stamping by a coworker that asked me if I wanted to meet some crazy ladies who spent all their money on stamps. I found the best friends a woman could ask for, a hobby we can be passionate about, and a healthy way to spend money.